This weekends project

So I've been up since 2.30am, as I've a lot todo this weekend, Some I can share with you, whilst another I have to hold my tongue until Wednesday when all will be revealed,

We have a long weekend ahead as Monday is a bank holiday, so tomorrow I'm off to visit my sister over in Devon, which means today and Monday I'll be knitting my fingers raw.

My lovely Girlfriend Renee requested a halter-neck dress using the same net technique as my tank top above, Renee is a singer so I suspect she'll be strutting her stuff on stage sometime in the coming month wearing an iLE AiYE dress, which is pretty exciting for me.

Hopefully she won't mind if I grab a few images of her wearing the finished results, when she pops round next week to collect it.

One nice thing this morning, is, we have sunshine, first time in about a month.

And the WINNER IS....

Di - Spring green hat.

Well done, I'll be posting it out tomorrow, I need to knit it up.;-))

the video of the draw is available here to view.

Click IT a new shade

This week I've added a new shade to my 'click it' collars, this is a gorgeous dusky turquoise, the image doesn't quite show the warmth of this colour, I find it really tricky describing a colour, and with everyone having a different screen resolution, this makes it more difficult share. A handy tool to use is this http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/ I'd match the collar to what this tool describes as polo blue, but who on earth would know what colour polo blue was??

only 2 left in this shade

http://www.etsy.com/listing/54682462/red-firefly-poncho-ltd-edition-2-3-left?ref=v1_other_2

I found this yarn again during my trip to Wales in the summer, it's a discontinued yarn, so pretty hard to come across these days, I bought enough to make about 8 more, however, it appears the balls I bought are coming up short, and so I'm having to use more balls per poncho, so this is number 1, and now it looks like I can only make 2 more.

Longer version of the black swing

http://www.etsy.com/listing/54695203/black-chelsea-jacket

I've been working on a longer version of the original black swing cardi, this one is now more like the chelsea jacket, http://www.etsy.com/listing/48441270/the-chelsea-jacket-in-grey but finally with arms, it swings a little better than the original chelsea jacket, due to the yarn that I've used ie: a looser stitching, and different stitch. This jacket was a custom order, despite it looking like a fairly simply swing jacket it's quite time consuming to finish, as the yarn is a bugger to stitch together, and I already have a lot of garments that take up a lot of time, pretty soon, I'm gonna end up running clear out of time. ;-)

New Shades coming soon

http://www.etsy.com/listing/51042824/felted-tweed-merino-winter-long-sleeve

With Autumn hot on the heals of summer, i've just ordered some new shades to re-create the felted tweed merino shrug. I'm looking forward to seeing the red shade as I do love a little bit of red.